Must Read

• Matt Taibbi, How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
• David Cay Johnston, 21 Questions for Donald Trump
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The ‘Economic Left’, The Poor, and the Anti-Solidarity of Progressives
• Steve Randy Waldman, Your theory of politics is wrong

Should Read

• James K. Galbraith, Economic Forecasting Models and Sanders Program Controversy
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Sanders And The Neo-Liberals
• Simon Wren-Lewis, A letter to Tony Blair [Ed.:  This should also be required reading for Democratic party leadership.]
• Dean Baker, Fareed Zakaria Is Wrong: The Left Has Plenty of Good Solutions for Inequality, They Just Don’t Get Mentioned in the WaPo Opinion Pages
• Bruce Gellerman, Gas Export Decision Stirs Debate Over Mass. Pipeline Need
• Andrew Revkin (NYT), Bill Gates’s Clean-Energy Moon Shot
• Michelle Innis (NYT), Scientists Protest Cuts and Commercialization at Australian Climate Center

Flint, MI Water Contamination

• Charlie Pierce, Here’s a Look Behind the Curtain on the Flint Disaster

Economics and Politics

• Rod Dreher, What Jindal Did To Louisiana
• Dave Dayen, The Pious Attacks on Bernie Sanders’s “Fuzzy” Economics
• Jared Bernstein, Charles Manski on the importance of accounting for policy uncertainty
• Mark Thoma, My View on the Controversy over Sander’s Economic Plan
• John Cassidy, Bernie Sanders and the Case for a New Economic-Stimulus Package
• Jonathan Chait, Can Bernie Sanders Liberate the Democratic Party From Technocracy?
• Bryan Williams, Why Baby Boomers Don’t Get Bernie Sanders
• Bruce Bartlett, Jack Kemp’s Power Lesson for Hillary Clinton
• Dean Baker, Accelerating Inflation: The Attack of the Job Killers
• Charles Bagli and Megan Twohey (NYT), Donald Trump to Foreign Workers for Florida Club: You’re Hired
• Tyler Cohen, The declining labor force participation rate for middle-aged males
• Eduardo Porter (NYT), Nudges Aren’t Enough for Problems Like Retirement Savings
• Karl Russell (NYT), In an Improving Economy, Places in Distress
• Peter Frase, Work to Need

Foreign Policy

• Tyler Rogoway, Saudis Want To Arm Syrian Rebels With Anti-Air Missiles To Counter Russia
• Somini Sengupta (NYT), U.N. Finds ‘Deliberate’ Destruction of Hospitals in Syria
• Michael Forsythe (NYT), China Deployed Missiles on Disputed Island, U.S. Says
• Dan Drezner, The United States needs a new long telegram. But from where?
• The American Conservative, A 2016 Foreign Policy Report Card:  Which candidates are most likely to be guided by realism and restraint?
• Robert English, Bernie Sanders, the Foreign-Policy Realist of 2016  [Ed.:  Note that between TAC and The Nation Sanders gets the highest marks for realism and restraint from both non-establishment New Deal liberals and non-establishment Burkean conservatives.]

Science

• Paul Rincon, Large space rock burns up over Atlantic
• Rachel Courtland, Massive News: Kilogram Redefinition Heads Into Crucial Test
• Rasmus Benestad, What is the best description of the greenhouse effect?

Urban Planning

• RPA, Americans Want Walkable Neighborhoods

Ending on a Positive Note

• Jan Hoffman (NYT), HPV Sharply Reduced in Teenage Girls Following Vaccine, Study Says
• Rachel Quednau, 7 Reasons Why I Love Living Near the Water
• Tatiana Schlossberg (NYT), Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom’